Doctors Face the Axe for Saving 'Living Will'patients [Edition 3]

Daily MailMarch 07, 2009

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DOCTORS have been warned they will be struck off if they ignore the wishes of patients who have made 'living wills' which say treatment should be stopped.

The ethical rules of the medical profession will in future demand that doctors obey the living wills, in which patients can ask to be killed if they become too ill to speak, eat or drink.

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Doctors Face the Axe for Saving 'Living Will'patients [Edition 3]

The new guidelines for medical staff appear to reverse the ancient principles of saving life which underpin the work of doctors.These are expressed in the Hippocratic Oa...

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